During his years as Poet Laureate, Robert Hass revived a popular 19th-century tradition: including poetry in our daily newspapers. “Poet?s Choice? went on to appear as a nationally syndicated column across the country from 1997 to 2000. The column, which featured poems relevant to current headlines, serves as a symbol of the continuing importance... more...

?No practicing poet has more talent than Robert Hass.? ? Atlantic Monthly The National Book Award-winning author of Time and Materials , Robert Hass is one of the most revered of all living poets. With The Apple Trees at Olema, the former Poet Laureate and winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize offers twenty new and selected... more...

The poems in Robert Hass's new collection?his first to appear in a decade?are grounded in the beauty and energy of the physical world, and in the bafflement of the present moment in American culture. This work is breathtakingly immediate, stylistically varied, redemptive, and wise. His familiar landscapes are here?San Francisco, the Northern California... more...

Universally lauded poet Robert Hass offers a stunning, wide-ranging collection of essays on art, imagination, and the natural world?with accompanying photos throughout. What Light Can Do is a magnificent companion piece to the former U.S. Poet Laureate?s Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning poetry collection, Time and Materials , as... more...

Universally lauded poet Robert Hass offers a stunning, wide-ranging collection of essays on art, imagination, and the natural world?with accompanying photos throughout. What Light Can Do is a magnificent companion piece to the former U.S. Poet Laureate?s Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning poetry collection, Time and Materials , as... more...

The poems in Robert Hass's new collection?his first to appear in a decade?are grounded in the beauty and energy of the physical world, and in the bafflement of the present moment in American culture. This work is breathtakingly immediate, stylistically varied, redemptive, and wise. His familiar landscapes are here?San Francisco, the Northern California... more...

?No practicing poet has more talent than Robert Hass.? ? Atlantic Monthly The National Book Award-winning author of Time and Materials , Robert Hass is one of the most revered of all living poets. With The Apple Trees at Olema, the former Poet Laureate and winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize offers twenty new and selected... more...

The poems in Robert Hass's new collection?his first to appear in a decade?are grounded in the beauty and energy of the physical world, and in the bafflement of the present moment in American culture. This work is breathtakingly immediate, stylistically varied, redemptive, and wise. His familiar landscapes are here?San Francisco, the Northern California... more...

Universally lauded poet Robert Hass offers a stunning, wide-ranging collection of essays on art, imagination, and the natural world?with accompanying photos throughout. What Light Can Do is a magnificent companion piece to the former U.S. Poet Laureate?s Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning poetry collection, Time and Materials , as... more...

An acute and deeply insightful book of essays exploring poetic form and the role of instinct and imagination within form?from former poet laureate, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning author Robert Hass. Robert Hass?former poet laureate, winner of the National Book Award, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize?illuminates the formal impulses... more...